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  • Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.
  • James Scott, Australian medical student lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food, drinking from a snowball to rehydrate in the afternoon sun. Drawing by M. H. Boscott, 1993.
  • David Livingstone (?) and his followers on a boat, attacked by hippopotamus. Lithograph.
  • David Livingstone arriving at Lake Ngami in 1849. Lithograph.
  • Lake Ngami: Africans and European explorers on its bank. Wood engraving by J.W. Whymper after A. Rider.
  • David Livingtone's followers, Susi and Chuma, pictured with his former possessions. Photograph, ca. 1873.
  • David Livingstone, suffering from fever, carried above water on the shoulders of one of his men. Wood engraving after J.B. Zwecker.
  • Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone on Lake Tanganyika. Lithograph.
  • David Livingstone, seated on the ground, reading from the Bible to two African followers. Wood engraving and letterpress, 1874.
  • M0001313: Profile portrait of Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774), French explorer, geographer, and mathematician
  • David Livingstone memorial in Blantyre; Livingstone reading the Bible to a group of African men. Photoprint.
  • David Livingstone's grave at Westminster Abbey. Wood engraving by H. Harral.
  • Livingstone college. Process print.
  • A title page (right) embellished with illustration of people ascending steep cliffs and a book plate (left) of four birds. Engravings by S. Davenport, ca. 1821.
  • Tree in central Africa where David Livingstone's heart is buried, showing the inscription bearing his name. Copy photograph after original photograph by P. Weatherley.
  • David Livingstone. Photograph.
  • David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley on the River Ruzizi. Wood engraving.
  • Chumah, David Livingstone's personal servant, seated on a wooden stool, holding his cap in his hand. Wood engraving.
  • Above, W.O. Livingstone, L.S. Dawson and W. Henn, leaders of the search for D. Livingstone, seated on rocks, holding guns; below, the Abydos, the ship on which they sailed to Africa, leaving London. Etching, 1872.
  • Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone on the River Ruzizi. Lithograph.
  • The meeting of David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley, 28 October 1872, in central Africa. Lithograph after J. Durden.
  • David Livingstone and his men going down the Zambezi rapids. Lithograph.
  • David Livingstone memorial in Blantyre; Livingstone found dead, kneeling beside his bed. Photoprint.
  • David Livingstone, holding a gun, attacked by a lion; Africans and a missionary in the foreground. Etching.
  • David Livingstone and his men walking through a swamp in central Africa. Lithograph.
  • David Livingstone and his followers attacked by buffaloes. Lithograph.
  • David Livingstone, head and shoulders, in a roundel; two Africans on each side of the roundel. Coloured lithograph.
  • David Livingstone. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank.
  • Funeral of David Livingstone at Westminster Abbey; his coffin is carried by some of his former servants. Wood engraving by C.R.
  • David Livingstone, suffering from fever, going through the African jungle to Shinte on the back of an ox. Lithograph.